Integration for stress and well being
To attempt to scientifically evaluate an abstract concept such as reflexology is very difficult. To evaluate the effects of that treatment of reflexology may be much easier. As in many other forms of natural healing, reflexology works by encouraging the body’s natural life force energies to flow and balance. Reflexologists believe that a balance of mind- body-spirit is fundamental to well-being. A relationship between specific parts of the feet and organs and systems of the body is being established. Trained, sensitive hands can detect tiny irregularities along lines of energy flow in reflex areas in the feet. Reflexology may encourage an energy discharge at areas of stress or imbalance. Reflexology can prove to be profoundly relaxing; the client will often enter a state of deep relaxation. The effect is that the body is encouraged to return to homeostasis, its innate rhythmic level of function peculiar to each individual. Stress therefore, may be described as the experience of living and working in conflict with our own generic blueprint. Healing has been concerned with this concept for many years.Our unique vibration
Perhaps some people may better recognise the importance of their personal identity - our very own generic blueprint, some people may be more in touch with their true nature than others, they may better recognise and acknowledge its unique flavour and purpose and live closer in harmony with it. Some people however may forget, perhaps it sometimes just becomes difficult to remember their true nature; just exactly who they really are. Unwanted stress seems to at the root of many illnesses and disease in our modern lifestyle, we experience the symptoms in a range of ways, for example, the stress may manifest as simple indigestion or more seriously as mental health problems. Sometimes a major life experience or trauma may touch us so deeply that we suddenly must face our own vulnerability and subsequently become completely detached and we may need to learn how to integrate the trauma before we can start to recover.So if indeed unwanted stress is at the root of illness in today’s lifestyle, perhaps in an ideal world we would need to pay more attention to the cause as well as the effect. Complementary therapies may be very useful to ground and to encourage a return to our real selves even if it’s only just for a short but potentially valuable time. Reflexology is a holistic treatment, in that it does not focus on the treatment of specific medical symptoms but on the restorative effects of improving the overall equilibrium within the client - a delicate and complex synthesis of spiritual, emotional and physical aspects. It is, to this unique personal identity, or lets call it ‘wellness’, that reflexology is applied.
